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Originally Posted by Sirtel
The vast majority of uploaders to pirate sites are never going to do that much work. They don't sell the books or get any money for them; they just share their files for a number of reasons, of which monetary gain is certainly not one. If Amazon makes DRM removal impossible or too convoluted, most of them might well give up. Commercial pirates won't, but those are the minority. Shadow libraries are mostly populated by ordinary folks, who buy or borrow books, remove the DRM and upload.
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I should point out that while it is the case *now* it was not the case before, when ebooks were rare and the only way to get books into digital form was to buy one, unbind it and scan/ocr. I remember getting many an OCRed txt/rtf file from IRC. In the same vein as scanlation groups, there were groups dedicating to creating, well, primitive ebooks. Sadly, there was no other way to get most English books back then, the only import book shop was in capital, and carried a very limited, very expensive selection. (and I was minor without any income).
Sadly, these days, there are out of print books that are simply not available in electronic format. Like, at all (that I could find). And with the glut of relatively easy to get ebooks, nobody bothers to OCR them.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
You do know that's fantasy?
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More like speculative fiction. Or dystopian fiction.